Plate Fibula

750-700 BCE (Late Geometric) 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm) Citation Source image

The large size and gold foil inlays decorating the upper surface of the bow make this fibula especially noteworthy. The large catch-plate is incised on both sides with a delicate linear design of three fishes within a border. Like all fibulae, it functioned as a clothing faste...

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22005
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André Emmerich Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1965, by purchase.
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en
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4
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